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rurtion of Act 210, 1917, Creating a Bureau of Sani- 
tation and Relating to Hotels, RoomingHouses 
and Restaurants, Defining Such Places and 
Providing for License Fees to be Collected 
and Turned Over to the State, and for Other 
Purposes. 



Section 3. Every building or other structure 
kept, used, maintained, advertised or held out to the 
public to be a place where food is served and sleeping 
accommodations are offered for pay to transient guests, 
in which six or more rooms are used for the accommo- 
dation of such transient guests, and having one or more 
dining rooms or cafes, where meals or lunches are 
served to such transient guests, such sleeping accommo- 
dations and dining rooms being conducted in the same 
building and under the same management, together 
with any buildings in connection therewith, shall, for 
the purpose of this Act, be deemed a hotel. 

Section 4. Every building or other structure kept, 
used, maintained, advertised or held out to the public 
to be a place where sleeping accommodations are fur- 
nished for pay to transient guests or permanent guests, 
in which six or more rooms are used for such guests, 
but which does not maintain dining rooms or cafes in 
the same building, and under the same management, 
together with any buildings in connection therewith, 
shall, for the purpose of this Act, be deemed a rooming 
house. 

Section 5. Every building or other structure 
kept, used, maintained advertised or held out to the 
public to be a place where meals or lunches are served 
without sleeping accommodations, together with all 
outbuildings in connection therewith, shall, for the pur- 
pose of this Act, be defined a restaurant. 

Section 6. That within three months after the 
passage of this Act, every person, firm or corporation 
now engaged in the business of conducting a hotel, or 



restaurant, or both, or rooming house, and every per- 
son, firm or corporation which shall hereafter engage 
in conducting such business shall procure a license for 
each hotel, rooming house or restaurant so conducted 
or proposed to be conducted, provided that one license 
shall be sufficient for combined hotel and restaurant, 
when both are conducted in the same building and 
under the same management; such license shall expire 
on the 31st day of December next following its issuance. 
No hotel, rooming house or restaurant shall be main- 
tained and conducted in this State after the taking ef- 
fect of this Act, without a license therefor, and no license 
shall be transferable, provided this section shall not 
be interpreted to apply to change in management or 
proprietorship. 

Section 7. The fee for license to conduct a hotel, 
rooming house or restaurant in this State shall be three 
(S3. 00) dollars per annum, except for hotels that con- 
tain ten sleeping rooms, the license fee shall be five 
($5.00) dollars, and for every additional room therein 
an additional fee of ten ($ .10) cents shall be charged, 
provided that no license fee shall exceed twenty ($20) 
dollars, which shall be paid to the State Treasurer be- 
fore said license shall be issued. The license fee pro- 
vided for above shall be due and payable on the first 
day of April, 1917, and shall be due and payable there- 
after on the first day of January of each year. 

Section 8. On the first day of each month, the 
Secretary of the State Board of Health and the Chief 
Inspector shall file with the State Treasurer a list of all 
hotels, rooming houses and restaurants which are 
entitled to receive a license, and on certification of the 
State Treasurer to the State Board of Health that the 
proper fees have been paid by hotels, rooming houses 
or restaurants, the said State Board of Health shall 
issue a license in accordance with the provisions of this 
Act, which shall bear the signature of the Chief Inspec- 
tor, President and Secretary of said Board and its offi- 
cial seal. 

Section 9. No hotel, rooming house or restaurant 
proprietor shall be subject to prosecution for not com- 

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plying with the provisions of this Act until his or her 
place of business shall have been inspected, provided, 
that the proprietors of hotels, rooming houses and res- 
taurants shall procure a license within ninety days 
after this Act takes effect. Said license shall be prop- 
erly framed and kept in the office of said place in a con- 
spicuous manner. 

Section 10. After thirty days' notice by the in- 
spector to any firm, person or corporation failing to 
comply with the provisions of this Act or the rules and 
regulations made and promulgated in pursuance hereof, 
if said Act or rules and regulations are not then com- 
plied with, the buildings and premises involved may 
be closed for use as such hotel, rooming house or res- 
taurant, without further procedure by the inspector, 
with the approval of the State Board of Health, until 
all of the provisions of this Act and the rules and regu- 
lations pertaining thereto are complied with. 

Section 11. All notices to be served by the inspec- 
tors, provided for in this Act, shall be in writing and 
shall be either delivered personally or by registered 
letter to the owner, agent or lessee or manager of such 
hotel, rooming house or restaurant. Any person, firm 
or corporation operating a hotel, rooming house or 
restaurant in this State or leasing a building used for 
such business without first having complied with the 
provisions of this Act and having a license granted by 
the State Board of Health, shall be guilty of a misde- 
meanor and shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined in 
the sum of not less than ten ($10) dollars nor more 
than one hundred ($100.00) dollars for each and every 
such non-compliance with this Act, together with the 
cost of the suit. 

Section 12. It shall be unlawful for any inspector 
to accept lodging, meals or anything of a substantial 
nature from any source, whatsoever involving the places 
of business herein designated, and it shall be unlawful 
for any proprietor, manager or employee to offer any 
accommodations or courtesy of a substantial nature 
to an inspector. Such a violation shall be deemed a 
misdemeanor and shall be punishable by a fine of not 




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Section 13. All fees collected under the provisions 
of this Act shall be deposited with the State Treasurer 
in a fund to be known as the "Sanitary Fund of the 
State Board of Health," and shall be available as soon 
as collected for maintaining the Bureau of Sanitation 
when duly appropriated by the General Assembly. 

Section 16. The rules and regulations promul- 
gated by the State Board of Health shall be deemed 
necessary to enforce the provisions of this Act and are 
hereby made a part of this Act. 

Section 17. All laws or parts of laws in conflict 
with provisions of this Act are hereby repealed. 

Section 18. This Act being necessary for the im- 
mediate preservation of the public peace, health and 
safety, an emergency is hereby declared, and this Act 
shall take effect and be in force from and after its pas- 
sage. 

Approved March 10, 1917. 



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